Image quality assessment with a Gabor pyramid model of the human visual system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3016, Issue , 1997, Pages 58-69

  Taylor, Christopher C ^a,b   Pizlo, Zygmunt ^b   Allebach, Jan P ^a   Bouman, Charles A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Discrimination; Gabor; Human visual system; Image fidelity; Image quality

Indexed keywords

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

DETECTION; DISCRIMINATION; GABOR; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; IMAGE FIDELITY;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 58749087069     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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